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Want an Open Thread? Don’t Cost Nuthin’

by John Cole|  June 30, 201311:47 pm| 28 Comments

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Season Four of True Blood is really getting kind of dirty like late night skin-e-max or show-it-all-the-time.

In other words, I’m having to rewind a lot.

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  1. 1.

    Big R

    June 30, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    Heh. Genitals.

  2. 2.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    June 30, 2013 at 11:57 pm

    SkinMax is anything but pron. It’s basically the same eighteen people acting in ‘different’ movies where sooner or later they all bang each other and all you get to see are some fake tits, fake thrusting and sweat.

    Free amateur pron on the internet is more revealing and has better story lines.

  3. 3.

    lamh35

    July 1, 2013 at 12:00 am

    Hmm, so I’m guessing no one else watched the BET Awards right…lol.

    Just me then…ok well…I did the same thin you did when I first got hooked on True Blood. I was fighting it for a while (I was still made at CW/WB/UPN for cancelling Angel!!!) so I was boycotting vampires on TV. But then I had free HBO one weekend ’bout 5 years ago and Tru Blood was being shown in prep for whatever the current season was. So I watched Season 1-3 back to back and I was hooked.

    Funny enough, alot of the current shows I watch now I got hooked on from marathon viewings like Criminal Minds (it was counter programming Christmas Day marathon), Castle (actually I believe people on BJ may have been talking up Castle), Fringe (I’m a big X-files fan, and some episode came on one night and I liked it so much I watched the whole first 2 seasons back to back), finally, Scandal on ABC (Black Twitter were all over Scandal and I admit I gave it a chance just cause of that and I ended up watching the whole first season, but it was only 7 episodes so that wasn’t bad

  4. 4.

    burnspbesq

    July 1, 2013 at 12:03 am

    The chance of seeing Connie Britton, the Sexiest Fully-Realized, Non-Objectified Woman Alive, in the altogether is approximately zero, but I’m still going to spend the summer catching up on Nashville.

  5. 5.

    Hill Dweller

    July 1, 2013 at 12:05 am

    The Newsmax headlines on the side of the page tells me Christie vetoed NJ’s medicaid expansion bill. If true, Christie has decided to let his wingnut flag fly.

  6. 6.

    Yatsuno

    July 1, 2013 at 12:07 am

    @Hill Dweller: I wonder if they have enough votes to overturn it. I also wonder if Buono is gonna pounce on this like Tunch on ahi.

  7. 7.

    Hal

    July 1, 2013 at 12:09 am

    @lamh35:

    True Blood season 4 was saved by Fiona Shaw. I could watch her curse Pam all night, and I love Pam.

    I used to like Criminal Minds, but damn, that show seems to exist just to torture, maim and kill. Then the FBI figures out who the killer is in the last 10 minutes. That show went from a favorite of mine to no interest pretty quickly, but I did see dozens of episodes before I lost interest.

    Also, someone had the brilliant idea to take a couple of minutes of Oprah’s Next Chapter with Paula Deen and turn it into the omen, with Enya as a background soundtrack. Hilarious. I just wished I was high while watching it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb4vhJaX1hw&feature=share

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    July 1, 2013 at 12:12 am

    If we don’t hear from Martin again, I know why: http://i.imgur.com/j3W3LXk.jpg

  9. 9.

    Hill Dweller

    July 1, 2013 at 12:13 am

    @Yatsuno: I realize Christie gets a ton of free press from the Beltway, who portray him as a moderate, but he is a wingnut. If his policies were actually highlighted, voters would(hopefully) see him for what he is.

  10. 10.

    The Other Chuck

    July 1, 2013 at 12:14 am

    @Hal:

    Mandy Patinkin had exactly the same feelings about Criminal Minds, to where one day he just stopped showing up on the set. Calls the show the worst mistake of his career. At least they respected him enough to give his character a sendoff that reflected his feelings (most shows just kill them off, e.g. Kal Penn’s character in House).

    There may be a fuzzy line between exploring humanity’s dark side and reveling in it, but that show crossed it so far and stayed that you couldn’t even see the line anymore.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    July 1, 2013 at 12:14 am

    @MikeJ:
    7400 degrees? That’ll get ‘er done.

  12. 12.

    Stella B.

    July 1, 2013 at 12:15 am

    I never watched TV before I retired, but I’ve been watching it lately. I find it much more enjoyable now that I can watch the entire series of a show at once rather than spreading it out over weeks and years. I just finished watching all five seasons of Doc Martin. Pretty funny stuff, most of it. I used to work with a guy like that. He was a super clinician, but very strange.

  13. 13.

    Joe Max

    July 1, 2013 at 12:15 am

    “I swear I’m not watching porn! It’s True Blood!”

  14. 14.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    July 1, 2013 at 12:30 am

    @MikeJ: LMAO, I wonder if the wife should call her daughter, she lives(or maybe lived) down there. I think that was from last night, today was supposed to be hotter than Saturday.

  15. 15.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    July 1, 2013 at 12:32 am

    @trollhattan: Well Done.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    July 1, 2013 at 12:36 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    It was supposed to be, but then those weird clouds rolled in around lunchtime. Now it’s supposed to be low 90s instead of 100s the rest of the week.

    ETA: At least in Glendale, that is. No idea what the new prediction is for Irvine.

  17. 17.

    burnspbesq

    July 1, 2013 at 12:39 am

    @MikeJ:

    I doubt that it really got to 7393 in Irvine. It never got above 7250 here in Orange, and they get more of an onshore breeze in the afternoon than we do because they’re closer to the water.

  18. 18.

    Suffern ACE

    July 1, 2013 at 1:14 am

    @Hill Dweller: if I’m reading it right, he vetoed the law making the Medicaid expansion permanent. So nj has its Medicaid expansion this year but can back out any time. Basically, it’s like our Farm Bill, which used to get passed regularly but was some kind of emergency bill.

  19. 19.

    Linnaeus

    July 1, 2013 at 1:14 am

    92 today here in Seattle. 97 in Portland. It usually doesn’t get that hot out here, and when it does, it’s usually in mid- or late July. Hell, it’s 10:15 pm and it’s only gone down to 79.

    As as result, I’m not too sleepy and I’ve decided to watch The Sopranos. Wish I’d watched that show when it was on TV, but I didn’t have HBO then.

  20. 20.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    July 1, 2013 at 1:21 am

    @Linnaeus:

    What’s this heat wave I am hearing about? Send some of it our way! We were in the mid-60’s today (south Oregon coast) and are expecting the same tomorrow. Heck, it’s 62 now so not much difference…lol

  21. 21.

    Hill Dweller

    July 1, 2013 at 1:27 am

    @Suffern ACE: Thanks for the clarification. Why would he want to make it a year-by-year basis? Weird.

  22. 22.

    MattR

    July 1, 2013 at 2:19 am

    @Hill Dweller: Christie shut down the tunnel project into Manhattan by inflating the state’s long term costs. Conservatives around the country hailed him as the paragon of fiscal conservatism. Now imagine what happens when he cherry picks data from 2014 and 2015 to declare the future cost of the expansion is too great and cancels it in 2016. That might be an exaggeration of his motives, but it is more or less the reason why he vetoed it. From the Yahoo article about it:

    The vetoed bill would have removed the flexibility to opt out of the Medicaid expansion if the federal government changed the terms of the current favorable matching rate, the spokesman said. The governor had discussed publicly his intention to maintain this flexibility when he signed onto the expansion, the spokesman said.

    What should be getting publicity is that he also vetoed bills today that:

    – restored funding for family planning clinics — S-2825/A-4172;

    – expanded Medicaid family-planning funding for single residents — A-4171/S-2824;

    – funded a public awareness campaign for the federally operated health insurance exchange — A-3878/S-2673.

    (EDIT: In that last linked article there is a quote from Christie when he first signed the expansion saying if the terms change “because of adverse actions by the Obama administration, I will end it as quickly as it started.” So that could be the hook he uses to back out of it in 2016. “Blame Obama” is never a bad strategy during Republican primaries)

  23. 23.

    Suffern ACE

    July 1, 2013 at 5:20 am

    @MattR: you do not lose votes kicking people off welfare with a smile in this country. I will believe that until voters prove me wrong.

    When he opts out, he will be hailed for standing up to special interests and the candidate willing to make tough decisions. Middle class men, including Democratic Party members, will hail him for that.

  24. 24.

    Console

    July 1, 2013 at 7:09 am

    I resisted watching True Blood for a long time but it’s actually a way smarter and funnier show than you’d expect. The first two seasons are wildly entertaining TV (it also has the best intro ever for a TV show). It’s essentially a smart campy satire. Now, the show has pretty much outgrown itself. The pacing, which makes binge viewing a joy, isn’t something that any show could keep up with over a long time.

  25. 25.

    Laur

    July 1, 2013 at 10:16 am

    It’s on its last legs, I sense season 7 will be the last. But it’s still more fun and ridiculous than most other stuff on tv, and Alexander Skarsgård/Eric Northman is worth my viewing time.

  26. 26.

    John

    July 1, 2013 at 10:19 am

    I am completely puzzled by the idea that there were seasons of True Blood that were not primarily soft-core pornography.

  27. 27.

    Eural

    July 1, 2013 at 12:18 pm

    I thought it was weird in last night’s episode (no real spoiler) when Sam was shown running around in pants after he had shifted. I thought “they passed up a chance for some ass shots!?” And then I realized he was in a scene with a small child. Legal issues all over that one!

  28. 28.

    mclaren

    July 1, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    Season three of True Blood had Nazi werewolves, and I was wondering how they were gonna top that. Answer: more skin.

    If they had buck naked Nazi werewolves in UFOs that would be even better for season 7, but somehow I don’t think UFOs would fit with the show’s premise.

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